1. Welcome to Kuberef’s documentation!

1.1. Introduction

Kuberef aims to develop and deliver a Kubernetes-based reference implementation according to Anuket RA-2 in close collaboration with the Anuket RI-2 workstream.

Note

This is just an example of a possible RI-2 deployment. Kuberef aims to support and include other potential hardware and Kubernetes deployers as well. More details can be found in the Kuberef Wiki.

1.2. Infrastructure Prerequisites

Please refer to Chapter 3 of Anuket RI-2 Documentation for detailed information on the server and network specifications.

Additionally, please make note of the following:

  1. Ensure that you have KVM installed and set up on your jump server. This is needed because the deployment will spin up a VM which will then carry out the host and Kubernetes installation.

  2. A non-root user and generate SSH keypair.

  3. Add user to the sudo and libvirt group and have passwordless sudo enabled.

  4. Install Python3 (tested with 3.6.9), Ansible (tested with 2.9.14), Docker, yq (v3.4.1), git, jq and virtual-env (16.2 or later).

Installing and configuring the prerequisites will depend on the operating system installed on the jump server. Below are additional details for setting up some of the more popular distributions.

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

Note

Please use Ubuntu 18.04 instead when deploying on virtualized infrastructure. Otherwise, you will get an error “E: Package ‘libvirt-bin’ has no installation candidate”. This is because that openstack ironic will install package libvirt-bin which has been split into libvirt-daemon-system and libvirt-clients from Ubuntu 18.10. It works on Ubuntu 20.04 when deploying on baremetal and provider infrastructure because they create a jumphost VM with Ubuntu 18.04 to do the ironic steps in it.

Install packages using Apt

  • sudo apt-get install -y qemu-kvm libvirt-daemon-system libvirt-clients libvirt-dev genisoimage virt-manager bridge-utils python3-libvirt git jq

  • Some of the packages might be installed already

  • Start libvirtd if it isn’t running using sudo service libvirtd start

  • Add user to libvirt group using sudo adduser `id -un` libvirt

  • Log out and in on the current user to update the groups

If python isn’t available in the path, consider adding a symlink for Python3

  • ln -s /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/python

Install Ansible

  • apt-add-repository --yes --update ppa:ansible/ansible

  • apt-get install ansible

Install Docker

Install yq binary from Github

  • Find the correct build of version v3.4.1

  • Place the binary in /usr/bin/yq and make it executable chmod +x /usr/bin/yq

Install virtual-env

  • pip install --upgrade virtualenv

You might need to update the libvirt (QEMU) configuration if there are problems with user and group

  • You can set the user and group to “root” by uncommenting user and group in /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf

  • If the configuration is changed, finish by restarting libvirtd through service libvirtd restart

Generate SSH keypair

  • ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096

CentOS 8

Install packages using dnf

  • dnf install qemu-kvm qemu-img libvirt virt-install libvirt-client python3 git jq

  • Some of the packages might be installed already

  • Start libvirtd if it isn’t running using service libvirtd restart

  • Add user to libvirt group using usermod -a -G libvirt $(whoami)

  • Log out and in on the current user to update the groups

If python isn’t available in the path, consider adding a symlink for Python3

  • ln -s /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/python

Install Ansible * dnf install epel-release * dnf install ansible

Install yq binary from Github

  • Find the correct build of version v3.4.1

  • Place the binary in /usr/bin/yq and make it executable chmod +x /usr/bin/yq

You might need to update the libvirt (QEMU) configuration if there are problems with user and group

  • You can set the user and group to “root” by uncommenting user and group in /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf

  • If the configuration is changed, finish by restarting libvirtd through service libvirtd restart

Generate SSH keypair

  • ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096

1.3. Deployment on Baremetal and Provider Infrastructure

Please refer to Chapter 4 of Anuket RI-2 Documentation for instructions to get started with the deployment.

1.4. Deployment on Virtualized Infrastructure

Following are the steps to spin up a minimalistic Kuberef deployment on VMs aimed for development and testing use-cases:

  • Get kuberef code from gerrit git clone "https://gerrit.opnfv.org/gerrit/kuberef".

  • Set VENDOR=libvirt-vms, DISTRO=ubuntu1804 in deploy.env. Additionally, ensure that other environmental variables defined in this file match your setup.

  • The hardware and network configurations for the VMs are defined under hw_config/libvirt-vms. Currently, the configuration for one master and one worker VM is defined, but additional VM’s can be added as desired. Additionally, the default values of hardware storage, CPU information, etc. can be adapted as per need.

  • Once ready, initiate the deployment by running dev/deploy_on_vms.sh.

After the successful completion of the deployment, you can do virsh list to list the provisioned VM’s and connect to them over SSH using user root. The SSH public key of the user is already added by the installer in the VM’s. The IP of the VMs can be found under hw_config/libvirt-vms/pdf.yaml.

Verify that all services in the VM’s are running by kubectl get all --all-namespaces.

Note that this feature is currently only supported on Ubuntu 18.04. For other OS, additional configuration might be needed.

1.5. Validation of the Reference Implementation

Kuberef is validated by running test cases defined in Anuket RC-2 Cookbook. For setting up RC-2 Conformance toolchain, please refer to Anuket RC-2 Chapter 03.